نزار

Arabic

Verb

نزار (form I)

1. نُزَارُ (nuzāru) /nu.zaː.ru/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of زَارَ (zāra)
2. نُزَارَ (nuzāra) /nu.zaː.ra/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive of زَارَ (zāra)

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nzʾl /⁠nizār⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ni.ˈzɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɪ.zɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɪ.zɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɪ.zɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ni.zɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ne.zɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ni.zɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	nizār
Dari reading?	nizār
Iranian reading?	nezâr
Tajik reading?	nizor

Adjective

نزار • (nezâr)

1. feeble, haggard, thin
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 416”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     به یاد شخص نزارم که غرق خون دل است
     هلال را ز کنار افق کنید نگاه

     ba yād-i šaxs-i nizār-am ki ğarq-i xūn-i dil ast
     halāl rā zi kanār-i ufuq kunēd nigāh

     Remembering my frail body drowned in my heart's blood,
     Look at the crescent on the side of the [red] horizon.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نزار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim